Virtual Course

Stay Safe!

Stay Safe! Course

Virtual Classroom

The Stay Safe! course is offered in a virtual classroom! Participants login from the comfort of their own home using Zoom.

Our certified Red Cross instructors demonstrate, share slides, and facilitate learning activities among participants. Each participant will finish this course with the confidence and skills needed to stay home safe.​

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Description

Real-world scenarios often call on children to respond to challenges. The Stay Safe! program teaches applicable and age-appropriate skills while increasing and reinforcing a youth’s capacity to improve his or her own safety. Whether in their community or on their own, this group will be given better tools to Stay Safe! in a variety of different situations.

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• Importance of responsibility and respect while being accountable for yourself

• Importance of setting and following rules around safety when staying on your own

• How to stay safe at home and within the community

• How to prepare, recognize and respond to unexpected situations, (i.e. inclement weather, strangers, unanticipated visits) 

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• First Aid Content:

  • Check, Call, Care (includes phoning EMS/911), recovery position, conscious choking (adult/child/alone), feeling unwell, asthma (includes use of inhaler and spacer), anaphylaxis (includes the use of EpiPen), poisoning, insect stings, wound care (i.e. minor cuts and scrapes, splinters, nosebleeds, bumps and bruises, life-threatening bleeding, burns)

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Course Details 

• 2 x 2-hour virtual classroom sessions (2 separate days)

• Canadian participants 

• PDF & Physical copy of Stay Safe! Course Manual 

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What you Need

• A device, such as a phone or a laptop

• A good internet connection 

• Zoom app required (free download)

• A teddy bear or doll (yes, we still be doing practical activities like CPR and choking first aid throughout the course)